Using a recently developed stochastic Translog production function frontier model, technical inefficiency, technological progress and returns to scale are examined during Russia's 1998-2007 cyclical expansion at the branch level including both the market and non-market economy. The service...

A sample of 200 farms in the Leningrad Region of Russia is examined 1995-1998 using a stochastic frontier production function. Farms are found to have excess land and capital stock supporting findings in the literature

The impact of economic conditions on mortality in a large transition economy is analysed using county level data (NUTS III) from post-communist Romania 1997-2014 and a fixed-effects model. Overall mortality, circulatory diseases mortality, neoplasms mortality and external cause mortality move...